Optical Media Interface Lab (Mukaigawa Lab)

2018

May 1, 2018 Welcome party

Since the schedule of laboratory assignment
changed this year, the formal assignment was decided on May.
We have a welcome party for nine new students
at the usual Taiwanese restaurant.
This is also a welcome party for Sophie who came to Japan for internship.

Mar. 24, 2018 Miraikan

We have demonstrated some CGs of the earth on the Geo-Cosmos
which is a large spherical display at the Miraikan.
This is a cooperative research
with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Miraikan.
Yukiko explained how to reproduce floating feeling
of cloud to kids.

Mar. 23, 2018 Ceremony

The third generation students from our lab got their master degrees.
Kazuya got the best excellent student award of NAIST.
Yuki and Karin wore Japanese traditional dresses with
the support of Ms. Nobori.

Mar. 23, 2018 Visit of Ms. Inoshita

Ms. Inoshita visited our lab.
She is the first special research student,
when this lab was established.
Now, she is working for Canon.
Tsuyoshi introduced his research to make realistic replicas
which reproduce translucency.

Mar. 20, 2018 Visit of Mr. Kuniyoshi

Mr. Kuniyoshi, who is one of the alumnus of our lab
and now working for Panasonic, visited our lab.
He explained his current work.
Now, he is revising the journal paper of his research.

Mar. 13, 2018 Farewell party

We have held a farewell party for M2 members.
The graduation memorabilia is a colored paint of their names
in flower letters and juggling balls.
The juggling skills during two years were showed.

Mar. 12, 2018 Symposium on Plenoptic Time-Space Technology

A symposium on plenoptic time-space technology was held at
Keio University. Masakiyo has presented a computational
photography technique to observe cells such as fetlized egg,
which is a collaborated work with Panasonic.
The presentation is a complete work of the collaboration
which includes the contribution of Fusataka who is now
working for Panasonic.

Mar. 5-7, 2018 Shitsukan project meeting

The shitsukan project meeting was held at the Tokyo university,
and Profs. Mukaigawa and Kubo presented a new method to measure
reflection properties, which is an achievement of Taishi.
In the poster session, Prof. Kubo explained the algorithm while
showing a real lacquerware with gold leaf.

Mar. 3, 2018 CGVI workshop

Tsuyoshi and Koki presented a method to replicate translucency
by using UV printer which can print on 3-D objects
with various materials in CGVI workshop held at Phi Cafe in Tokyo.
This work is a topic on appearance fabrication, whose goal is,
for example, to replicate a realistic salmon-looking object
by UV printing on a translucent object,
once a slice of salmon is measured.

Feb. 26, 2018 Spring seminar

We have held a spring seminar to study a total flow of
measurement of reflection properties and CG application.
The glossiness of a smart phone was appropriately expressed
as a CG.

Feb. 26, 2018 Award ceremony of CICP2017

Kai's group received the award of CICP2017,
which is a competitive student project of NAIST.
The unique idea that hand actions are recognized using
ToF cameras placed around the wrist like a bracelet was evaluated.

Feb. 24, 2018 Birthday of Prof. Funatomi

We have celebrated the birthday of Prof. Funatomi,
after the open campus.
We have enjoyed soft cheesecakes.

Feb. 24, 2018 Open campus

The NAIST had the open campus.
We have shown new ongoing research achievements
such as spherical display and EpiScan system.

Feb. 16, 2018 Congratulations for master thesis defenses

All master thesis defenses were successfully done.
The party was held at the favorite Shin-Shin-Kaku Taiwanese restaurant.

Feb. 1, 2018 Visit of Mr. Sakurai

Mr. Sakurai, who is one of the alumnus of our lab
and now working for Panasonic, visited our lab.
Although today is the deadline of the master thesis,
the lab was quiet except for some students.

Jan. 29, 2018 Welcome back Prof. Kubo !

Prof. Kubo came back to our lab,
after his one year stay at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
He struggled to remember the names of M1 students, regrettably,
a lot of Skype meetings did not help him remember their names...
We are very sorry about that we prepared the cheap sushi,
which he should have been waiting for!

Jan. 18-19, 2018 CVIM workshop

Nobuhiro presented about photometric stereo using thermography
at CVIM workshop held at Osaka Prefecture University.
This presentation is that the decomposition can be solved
by using heat with slower transmission than light.

Daisuke also presented about removing fog effect at measurement with ToF camera.
The distance error by fog is corrected by understanding the principle of ToF camera.

Jan. 6, 2018 IWRCV2018

The 12th International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision (IWRCV2018) was
held at NAIST.
Prof. Tanaka presented a material estimation method using ToF camera,
and Tsuyoshi presented a hyperspectral imaging system using faced reflectors.
In the poster session, Taishi presented a BRDF measurement,
Takehiro presented a non-rigid registration,
and Yuki presented a measurement of scattering phase function.